How to Install Celtx 2.9.7 on Ubuntu Linux

July 12, 2013

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to properly install Celtx on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, and Linux Mint.

Celtx is the world’s first fully integrated software for Pre-Production and collaboration of film, theatre, radio, AV and comics. It has all the tools media creators need to bring their stories to life while combining intelligent writing and planning tools, storyboarding, and scheduling with internet-friendly technologies. It’s free and open-source.

I'm a freelance blogger who started using Ubuntu 5+ years ago and wishes to share my experiences and some useful tips with Ubuntu beginners and lovers. Please notify me if you find any typo/grammar/language mistakes. English is not my native language. Contact me on Google Plus or email to ubuntuhandbook1@gmail.com

22 responses to How to Install Celtx 2.9.7 on Ubuntu Linux

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Hey I get the IBUS as well, but I finally got past that and when I search celtx in the unity bar, it comes up like it’s supposed to. When I launch the application though, it just asks for my admin password and then closes out. the program doesn’t even launch. How can I fix that?

Hi, I installed Celtx by decompressing the file downloaded, then I create a launcher using “alacarte” pointing to the file “celtx”, and then it runs.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity, and the application “alacarte” runs from a terminal and it has a launcher in the Menu bar, in Prefereces, I think. I am working with a spanish version of Ubuntu.
Good luck!
Ricardo.

It worked out perfectly. I followed your instruction exactly as you’ve laid out here. Thank you, Ji M!

For those who used the launcher dialog but cannot launch the application itself, you can directly go to the /usr/share/applications/ directory, and double click the Celtx application that you just created. Once the app launches, right-click on the Celtx icon on the launcher bar and select “Lock to launcher”.

Guys, first of all, thanks a lot for everything! I’m new at ubuntu and learning a lot in here and lovin it! I maneged to install celtx alright, the problem is that i didn’t chosed an icon and now I can’t do it! i’m trying to reinstall it but i can’t uninstall it on the fisrt place! What should i do? it works just fine, perfect, but it would be awesome with the right icon and everything…

2) I’d like to have an icon in the desktop to click to start the Celtx or, at least, in the start menu.

I’m using Lubuntu 14.04.2 and I’ve not found an Unity Dash. I’m not sure what is the words I have to replace in the line “sudo chown handbook:handbook /usr/local/celtx”. As a tip, when I open LXTerminal it shows me “lazzari@lazzari-desktop:~”. As far as I can understand, I’ve preferred not to command this line because it seems – to me, an actor student – could change Celtx’s ownership to some crazy user that actually doesn’t exists. Also I’m not sure I have something like Icon[en_US] or Name[en_US] because I’m brazilian and the language of my Lubuntu is brazilian portuguese.

It is important to me because there’s projects I’m receiving, wrote through this Celtx program. And there is other people from my thetrical group, believe me or not, who get scared on type commands in a line, like “sudo /usr/local/celtx/celtx”, hehe…

Finaly, I’d like you please excuse my not-too-good english and my not-techinical habilities with computers.

The Dash is the top left corner, represented by the ubuntu symbol. This opens up the ‘dash window’, from which you can type any software name and it should locate/show. Click the software you wish to run and that will close dash and run the program.

I just installed this, without any problem, and I type; cel – into dash, and Celtx pops up directly. It runs first time, without having to edit permissions.